Fans Need to Support All Sports

by Cassy Moran

When most students think Friday nights, they probably think of going to the football game. Yet, at this time there may be five or six other games going on, volleyball, soccer, field hockey or even a cross country meet. Why is it that football has hundreds of fans, and field hockey has few, if any, students coming to support them?

It’s no surprise that no other sports have fans because while the Morgan Bowl has nice bleachers, none of the other fields  have anywhere to sit besides the ground. If someone forgot a chair coming to a field hockey game or soccer game , they would have to either stand or sit on the ground.

“It’s just that I wish we had more  supporters,” says freshman cross-country runner Emily Giorgio. “I feel like football is all that everyone cares about. Our teams seem ignored.” Even Mr. Macedo believes that some sports get all the support.

“Night games is the common thing, so we make night games for boys and girls soccer. They are not as well supported by the student body,” says Athletic Director Luis Macedo. “So really the student fans are the holders of the mystery of fan support.” The field hockey teams have had two night games, and they had barely twenty students at the game.

“It seems that once they qualify for postseason they are supported better,” Macedo says.

“I feel like more people make an effort to go to games. There were more families,” says field hockey manager Tessa Dinnie of their playoff games. “It’s hard to tell though, since our games were away.”

In a student survey about fan support, students who did not play sports preferred going to see football, hockey and soccer games.

Student athletes who feel they do not get a lot of support from their peers play lacrosse, baseball, cross country, indoor and outdoor track, tennis, girl’s basketball, and softball. The athletes said the only students who go their games are friends. Is it that football games are more of a social event, and that’s why people go? But then why do athletes have more support.

However, everyone who said they play football thinks they get a lot of support. Of 30 student athletes who responded to the survey, 29 of them support other teams. Basically, student athletes are supportive of other teams.

It is not fair that some sports get tons of support from not only parents and siblings, but students, who enjoy and continue going to games.